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The war zone

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Steve Paikin reflects on his Saturday night in downtown Toronto.

I have reported from war zones in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Lebanon, and Israel. But last night’s confrontation between peaceful demonstrators and riot squad police was the scariest situation I’ve ever been in, in almost 30 years of reporting.

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